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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBothus lunatus (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 274187

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorChordata (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVertebrata (Subphylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGnathostomata (Superclass) > Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorPisces (Superclass) > Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorActinopterygii (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPleuronectiformes (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBothidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBothus (Genus)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBothus Rafinesque, 1810
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBothus lunulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelling)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPlatophrys lunatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPleuronectes argus Bloch, 1783
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPleuronectes lunatus Linnaeus, 1758
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorRhomboidichthys lunatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorRomboidichthys lunatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelling)
Sources 
original description (of Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPleuronectes lunatus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

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Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorpeacock flounder  [details]
Spanish Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorlenguado lunado  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution 
From other sources
Gulf of Mexico
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorGulf of Mexico [details]
Host of  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaligus pomacentrus Cressey, 1991 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Barcode of Life (16 barcodes) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo FishBase 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank (24 nucleotides; 15 proteins) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Marine Species Identification Portal 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
Images Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editor[show unreviewed]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:274187
Taxonomic
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2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  created  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2014). Bothus lunatus (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2014) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=274187 on 2014-07-23
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